ROYAL VISIT

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1932, Page 3

ROYAL VISIT

TO i’LEET AT WEYMOUTH':

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, July 16

The ceremonial part of the" four days’' programme in connection with the King’s visit to the Fleet in. 'tVeyniculfv 'j]ay"'endeil' yelstei-ffay, when on the spacious quarter deck of the “Hood” the flagship of . Vice-Admiral. Tomlyinson, ’ commanding the battle cruiser scjudfdron,’ two thousand men of the ' “Hood’s” ■ and other ships’ companies marched past His Majesty.

To-day the King will direct the : operations in a’ naval “battle*’v in ivlncli. all of the. .weapons of modern naval warfare Will be in action, some .iiilea southward of Portland. This will bring the. Royal visit to a close.

..;■■■ • v“I ' think that the 5 raising i>fT school ago from five to - six years Jib'jSfe least harmful of all the alte.ations -to the system which the partment proposes' to enforce,” said •MrC. S. Thompson, a member ‘ptf the Canterbury Education Board, .in -dressing thb j-Sc&iOOl (Committee’ sociatiOn ftU- !, lGl9mdxlh'urc'h.' ‘jlProitiiittent educationists have confirmed “thAt view, I'’ 1 '’ he continuellf, “‘‘ahd' so and money can reasonably -be saved, 1 do not see why that chaofgeshoSra hot be made. However, I doishy twi the Government and the . Ecooolfoy Coirimhisiorq’ ■'aild" &J1 1 the Goins missions ‘on which money "hUs wasted, : di’d nbt know* what’ they ..wwi doing wheir'HsKey estimated 1 ttfc *M,* COO the saving to the Dominion result of the alteration to the;edkifib entering age. In will save £22,006; but W aj* to put out of employment 68 teachers. My view is that we should absorb those teachers by making the da sfiM smaller.” • ’/W ;-j> V'Y-'. - y